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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 189 km SSE of Amahai, Indonesia


Earthquake location -4.9389S, 129.5297WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 189 km SSE of Amahai, Indonesia (117 miles) on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 12:56:06 / 12:56 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000nuq8. Event ids that are associated: us7000nuq8. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 212.668 km (132 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/11/24 / 2024-11-11 12:56:06 / November 11, 2024 @ 12:56 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 129.5297 East, latitude -4.9389 South, depth = 212.668 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 189 km SSE of Amahai, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.5297° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.9389° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 212.668 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 189 km SSE of Amahai, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-11 12:56:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-07 23:31:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 284 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.557 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000nuq8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nuq8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nuq8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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